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french and indian war 1754-1763
- the French and Indian War was ended by the treaty of paris 1763 2.George Washington begins the French and Indian War 3.the french and england are the two who went to war
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Treaty of Paris 1763
- the treaty of paris ended the french and indian war
- The colosits won all the land to the west of the missipssippi.3. The land the won had better land and more space.
- the treaty of paris ended the french and indian war
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Proclamation of 1763
- English made a law that said that the colonists couldn't move past the appalation moutains.2. British were afraid that the colonist would start a war with the natives.3. Colonists did not like this law because things were becoming to crowd.
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Sugar act 1764
- The colonists tried moving east anyway and made the king mad.2. The british made new laws to get back at the colonists.3. The first law he made put taxes on sugar.
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stamp act 1765
- The colonists started to boycott the taxes so the king made another taxe.2. He put a tax on paper.3. This made the colonists even more mad.
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quartering act 1765
1.Parliament passed the Quartering Act to address the practical concerns of such a troop deployment.
2.This law was expanded in 1766 and required the assemblies to billet soldiers in taverns and unoccupied houses.
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writ of assistance 1767
1.Writs of assistance were court orders that authorized customs officers to conduct general (non-specific) searches of premises for contraband.
2.The writs of assistance again drew public attention with the enforcement of the Townshend Duties in 1767.
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Townshend acts of 1767
- this act made it so that the british could make any act they wanted2. Because of this they they didnt get all the stuff they wanted.3. The colonists boycotted by stopping trade with england.
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Boston massacre 1770
1.The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars
2.It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts.
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Tea act 1773
1.The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes.
2.It was designed to prop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea.
3.This tea was to be shipped directly to the colonies, and sold at a bargain price. -
Boston tea party 1773
- King George III and his government looked to taxing the American colonies as a way of recouping their war costs.
- They were also looking for ways to reestablish control over the colonial governments that had become increasingly independent while the Crown was distracted by the war.
- Colonialists attack,tar and feathera hapless tax collector
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Intolerable act 1774
1.The government spent immense sums of money on troops and equipment in an attempt to subjugate Massachusetts
2.British merchants had lost huge sums of money on looted, spoiled, and destroyed goods shipped to the colonies.
3.The revenue generated by the Townshend duties, in 1770, amounted to less than $ 21,000. -
• 1st Continental Congress 1774
1.The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5, to October 26, 1774
2.All of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates.
3.The colonies presented there were united in a determination to show a combined authority to Great Britain, but their aims were not uniform at all. -
• Lexington 1775
1.Massachusetts Colony was a hotbed of sedition in the spring of 1775.
2.Preparations for conflict with the Royal authority had been underway throughout the winter with the production of arms and munitions, the training of militia (including the minutemen), and the organization of defenses.
3.In April, General Thomas Gage, military governor of Massachusetts decided to counter these moves by sending a force out of Boston to confiscate weapons stored in the village of Concord and capture patriot l -
• Concord 1775
1.The town of Concord, Massachusetts, was alerted to the advance of British forces by Dr. Samuel Prescott shortly after midnight on April 19.
2.Church bells rang out the alarm, summoning Minutemen from the vicinity.
3.By the early morning hours, several hundred men had gathered in the town and began a slow march toward the oncoming redcoats, who had easily scattered the militia in Lexington. -
• 2nd Continental Congress 1775
1.They made decisions when and where to attack the British and how to protect themselves.
2.They issued paper money and set up a system where the government would borrow money from their citizens and pay it back with interest.
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• Ft. Ticonderoga 1775
1.The British military outpost of Fort Ticonderoga occupied a commanding strategic location in upstate New York that overlooked a portion of the potential invasion route the British would take from Canada down Lake Champlain to the Hudson Valley and ultimately to New York City.
2.If successful, this British line of conquest would separate the New England colonies from their southern brethren.
3.Having accomplished this division, the British could concentrate on first defeating one isolated segme -
• Bunker Hill 1775
1.On the Charlestown Peninsula on the North side of Boston Harbour.
2.British troops of the Boston garrison against troops of the American Continental Army.
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• Common Sense 1776
- Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. 2.The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain. 3.Paine's political pamphlet brought the rising revolutionary sentiment into sharp focus by placing blame for the suffering of the colonies directly on the reigning British monarch, George III.
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• Declaration of Independence 1776
1.the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument.
2.Here, in exalted and unforgettable phrases, Jefferson expressed the convictions in the minds and hearts of the American people.
3.The political philosophy of the Declaration was not new; its ideals of individual liberty had already been expressed by John Locke and the Continental philosophers. -
• Battle of New York 1776
1.Over a period of six weeks, British troop strength was increased so that it number over 32,000 by the end of August.
2.General Washington was preparing his men as well as he could under the circumstances.
3.Washington was hampered by the British control of the sea, which allowed them to conceivably attack either Long Island or Manhattan. -
• Battle of Trenton 1776
1.General George Washington against Colonel Rahl.
2.Americans against Hessians and British troops.
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• Battle of Princeton 1777
1.Princeton in New Jersey, USA
2.7,000 Americans against 8,000 British and Hessians although only 1,200 British troops were principally engaged.
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• Battle of Saratoga 1777
1.Major General John Burgoyne commanded the British and German force. Major General Horatio Gates and Brigadier Benedict Arnold commanded the American army.
2. The British force comprised some 5,000 British, Brunswickers, Canadians and Indians. By the time of the surrender the American force was around 12,000 to 14,000 militia and troops.
3.Saratoga on the Hudson River in New York State. -
• Winter at Valley Forge 1777-1778
1.The winter of 1777-1778 may have been the low point of the Revolutionary War for George Washington and the Continental Army.
2.After the Battles of Brandywine (September 11, 1777) and Germantown (October 4, 1777), the British Army occupied the American capital, Philadelphia, Congress was on the run, and the Army was in shambles.
3.Washington led somewhere between 10,000 to 12,000 troops to the site of their winter encampment at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. -
Battle of Yorktown 1781
1.Americans and French against the British
2.Virginia, United States of America
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• Treaty of Paris 1783
1.The Treaty of Paris of 1783, negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence
2.The talks began in April 1782, after the American-French victory at Yorktown led to the toppling of Lord North's Tory government and the naming of a Whig, Lord Rockingham, as prime minister and Lord Shelburne as foreign minister.
3.The Continental Congress named a five-member commission to negotiate a treaty--John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, joh
